Species Hamotulus piceus (King, 1866)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Tyrus piceus King, R.L. 1866. On the Pselaphidae of Australia. No. IV. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 1: 299-315 [301].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM K209114-209115 ♂♀ (AM w/2F //Tyrus n.sp. piceus, Lib[erty]. Pl[ains, nr. Parramatta]., 25/9/65//), Parramatta, South Creek and Camperdown, NSW.
• Hamotulus dispar Raffray, A. 1900. Australian Pselaphidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 25: 131-249, pl. 1 [Date published 8 Aug. 1900] [218].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP ♂ (holotype male (=piceus!) w/M HT //Forest Reef/ H. dispar A. Raffray det.// SAMA w/F "cotype" (not a type) //Sydney, Lea/Co-type//), Forest Reefs [13 km S Orange], NSW.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Chandler, D.S. 2001. Biology, morphology, and systematics of the ant-like litter beetle genera of Australia (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae). Gainesville, FL : Memoirs on Entomology, International Vol. 15 viii + 560 pp. [Date published 30 April 2001] [433]

 

Generic Combinations

• Hamotulus piceus (King, 1866).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: predator, terrestrial.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jul-2020		21-Dec-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)